Chapter 2: North

North was having a great day. A wonderful day, actually. He had finished all his toy prototypes, and the yetis and elves were almost halfway done with the toys, and it was only September. He walked across the hallway, in which the rooms of the Guardians was placed. Each door was decorated by the Guardian's desire. It was his favorite hallway, mainly because of Sandy's door, which was decorated with dreamsand that made wonderful shapes. He passed Tooth's teal and purple door, Bunny's door that was decorated with Aztec-designed eggs, his own door painted red and black, then stopped before Jack's pale blue-and-snowflakes door.

North knew very well the importance of Jack's room. It was one of his only attachments to his past. He was about to walk past the door when he remembered something. "Jack?" North called through the frosted door. "Jack, we have some thumbprint cookies in the kitchen. I know they're your favorite." There was no reply. North's brows furrowed. Jack loved thumbprint cookies, and would run at the mention of its name. No reply wavered out of the room. Now North was very worried. No 'running out of the room' because of thumbprint cookies were one thing, but no reply? That was bad.

Little did North know, Jack was sketching away in his notebook, too far away in his mind to notice the disturbances outside. Suddenly, the Winter Spirit jolted awake from his 'drawing daydream'. He looked over his side, but his carton of coloring pencils weren't there. 'Where did I put them?' Jack wondered. He jumped up. 'In the library!' Outside, North was just about getting ready to tear down Jack's door. He was halfway through bumping the door when Jack suddenly raced out and down the corridor, leaving North on the floor, dazed and confused.

North quickly recovered, and before he could get up and fix the door, he caught sight of Jack's drawings and paintings. Each one was obviously one of labor. They were all carefully drawn and painted, the slightest feature perfected. There was not a word to describe each's beauty and perfection; it was the image of perfection. North could not think of anything more beautiful than Jack's painting. One especially caught his eye. It was a drawing of Pitch, only coal blacks, and cloudy grays lining the drawing. It was perfect, down to every detail. Pitch's eyes in the drawing had somehow retained it's mischief and evil, with an underlying layer of sadness. How Jack had retained that, North would never know.

Another one caught his attention. It was an image of Jamie and Sophie playing in the snow. Real snow lined the bottom, since, he supposed, nothing Jack could draw would portray the beauty of snow. It retreated to one corner, stretched to the next, retreated, and repeated. He turned the frame, and found the source of snow: an ice crystal. North moved over to Jack's drawing desk, where a picture of an unfinished Toothania was placed. It was an exact image; each ruffle of feather, the twinkle in her eye, the movement of her arms.

"I guess you found my hobby, huh? I knew I couldn't keep it a secret long." Jack's smooth voice came. "Jack!" North exclaimed. "I didn't mean to come here, I just wanted-"
Jack flipped two thumbprint cookies in the air and caught it with his mouth. "I'm really sorry." North apologized. "It's okay." Jack replied. "I couldn't have kept it a secret for long anyway." he joked. The Spirit walked to his desk, opened a drawer, and pulled out a mini figure of North made of ice. It was chiseled to perfection. "I made it myself." Jack said, handing it over to the Christmas Spirit. North's mouth dropped in awe. "That-that's beautiful, Jack. Thank you." North said, smiling, and feeling the figure. He fixed the door, and with another greeting of thanks, left.

Jack sat down once again, and picked up his charcoal pencil. He finished sketching Tooth's face and arms. As he reached over to his side to grab a teal colored pencil, his hand groped nothing.

"Are you kidding me?!"

A/N: Hello my lovelies! How are you? I am REALLY sorry this chapter took long, life is hard. Hahaha! Anyway, thank you so much for the reviews, favorites, follows, and etc. they just make my day. Ok! Well, if you have concerns, ideas and others, PM me.

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Katkat